The paper considers the problem of defining concepts within formal ontologies. A number of distinct modes of definition are identified, which represent alternative viewpoints on t...
We are designing new data mining techniques on boolean contexts to identify a priori interesting bi-sets (i.e., sets of objects or transactions associated to sets of attributes or ...
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is an important avenue for disease prevention and treatment for the Chinese people and is gaining popularity among others. However, many remain s...
Nevin Lianwen Zhang, Shihong Yuan, Tao Chen, Yi Wa...
: Modularity is one of the most important principles in software engineering and a necessity for every practical software. Since the design space of software is generally quite lar...
Object-oriented applications are difficult to extend and maintain, due to the presence of implicit dependencies in the inheritance hierarchy. Although these dependencies often co...